PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

lbe forgotten; and Jessie, who was born on February 2, 1827, and died in June, 1903. Slhe married Hugh McKinnon, of Dundas.

Allan Macdonald emigrated with his large family from Scotland in I829, and located first at Murray Harbour Road and later at Dundas. He was a man of excep- tional parts and an ideal gentleman, de- rived from a long line of illustrious Scotch ancestry, and a direct descendant of that Macdonald whom Scott has immortalized as “The Lord of the Isles.” The Macdon- alds of Kinloch were his very near relatives, and one of them, Donald Macdonald, “Kin- loch Donhull a Rudha,” was the nearest relative of “The Lord of the Isles” that left Scotland for America. He settled near Oswell \Cove, this Island. Of Allan Mac- donald’s excellent character and deportment, his prudence and good sense, and his pop- ularity and the general esteem in which he was held in his native land, the following testimonials bear abundant witness:

“The bearer hereof, Allan Macdonald, a native of the parish of Kilmuir, has been known to me for the last eight years, during which period I had occasion to be suffi- ciently well acquainted with him, and I oWe it to him to say, that his conduct was in every respect regular and unexceptionable, and that his habits were always those of a good and sincere Christian, the attestations in his possession will sufficiently prove. Given at Kilmuir this second day of Novem- ber, 1825, by

RODK. MACLEOD, Late Schoolmaster of Kilmuir.”

“Mr. Allan Macdonald, who now has prepared himself to set sail for North Amer- ica, and leave his native land, in all likeli- hood never to return, is deeply and univer-

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sally regretted by all his neighbours, friends and acquaintances. He is a man of honest and industrious habits, correct in all his dealings, and laudably just. He has al- ways conducted himself with such propriety as to be free not only of such irregulari- ties as deserve censure either political or ecclesiastical, but even of such actions as are generally denominated mean. He was fa- voured with so much education as to ren- der him a most useful member of society: this was, however, by no means the efiect of his education alone, which would go but a short way, were it not accompanied with a sound judgment and solid reasoning. But fortunately good sense, united to a knowl- edge of the world, particularly in his own sphere of life, rendered him of such utility among a people less favoured with these ad- vantages, that the loss of his departure is now more universally felt. He is blessed with a numerous and thriving family, and were it not that he, and his legitimate spouse had always been industrious, the family must,‘ in a poor and oppressed coun- try, have been long ago reduced to poverty and indigence. But the prudence of such of the family as have attained the age of dis- cerning right from wrong, together with the diligent efforts of the parents, has enabled them to transfer themselves to a country where all their acquaintances left behind wish them every possible happiness and prosperity; and only add as they now cease to enjoy the pleasure of their society here any longer, that they who are now about to leave them may never cease to enjoy the temporal comforts of life here below, and hereafter everlasting happiness above. “Given unsolicited to Mr. Allan Macdon- ald, at the Manse of Kilmuir, Island of Skye, Scotland, by the undersigned, who